I set up a shorter board below. Now that she has to do both long jumps from pole to pole, Miez is getting quite good at it. The first jump takes a bit of catculations still, but she nails the second one really fast. For comparison:
Btw the board is 2,60m long, so the poles are about 1,20m apart middle to middle.
Yeah but I’ve learnt to do a better safe than sorry version, as it has to take quite the force when a ~5,5kg cat like Koda jumps. In my old apartment I had shitty walls and I used a different technique to mount those posts so they became loose over time until I used heavy duty dowels. To avoid this, I now screw a board to the wall (with 6 normal dowels and use 1 heavy duty screw plus two normal screws from the backside to mount the posts to the board). Also, I prefer using 1cm thick Sisal over carpet as this lasts way longer.
Oh yeah, I would always just do a simple board and get some shelf brackets from the store that were rated for like 20lb+ never had an issue except for that one time my roomie tried to use it as leverage to get up something. Though recently I have built a Cat tree for them and have been going kind of freeform with the sisal rope and shapes it’s a fun little thing for them and it cost way less than a store bought cat tree